>I've been struggling with that itchy coiled python that is my writing >career recently. Doesn't every writer? I pared it back to the fundamental >question: why?Why bother? Why not be a dentist? A therapist? A hypnotist? >Why any of it? And I realised that the only answer that you can truly build >a career on is: because I want to. "the writer's only true responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then." -- William Faulkner